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lawspeaker

noun

Etymology

From law + speaker; compare lawman.

  1. derived from *sprekô✻ — “speaker”
  2. derived from speca
  3. inherited from speker
  4. compounded as lawspeaker — “law + speaker”

Definitions

  1. An official in Scandinavia whose duties included memorizing laws as well as presiding…

    An official in Scandinavia whose duties included memorizing laws as well as presiding over, and reciting the laws at, regional Things or the Althing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lawspeaker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA